Some fluffy Friday night Obamamania. I’m with the women at Broadsheet; I have mixed feelings about the focus on Michelle Obama as a style icon. On one hand, the whole thing smacks of the same old sexism that reduces women—even...

All I’m saying is that if a girly-man Democrat had spent $150,000 outfitting themselves for ten weeks, it would be the story that consigned them, their ticket and perhaps their party to FOREVER ELECTORAL DOOOOOOOOOOM. Now, obviously part...

One of the more bizarre (if expected) attacks on the Obamas this year has been the idea that Michelle Obama is some sort of affirmative action drama queen whose entire life has been spent complaining about…well, everything really. Byron...

The GOP’s white sheet is showing (again). There’s a reason the RNC has hit a record low in black attendees at its convention. Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term “uppity” to describe...

David Broder writes today on the lost promise of Obama’s changing politics because…well, because he’s a Democrat. If this were just an off night by a speaker we know can soar, it would be no more than a blip on the screen....

Michelle Malkin doesn’t like the fact that the Fuck Panel called her out by name. She also doesn’t like Arabs, Muslims, the Japanese, liberals, sick kids, craftsmen, Mexicans, troops, Rachael Ray, filmmakers, black people,...

NOTE: This is the guest post I have up on Open Left today. I was invited by front-pager Jon Pincus to participate in a mutual guest-blogging series to bring more diverse perspectives to that progressive blog. The subject selected was the...

Twenty dollars to the first person who can give any rational reason why Michelle Obama is mentioned in Maureen Dowd’s latest piece. This isn’t even the failure to write something relevant (the entire article is basically a laundry...

No time for the Friday Random Ten today, but I wanted to draw everyone’s attention to this article about the whisper campaigns against Barack Obama that exploit Americans’ xenophobia and other forms of ignorance. More than any other...

I have no earthly idea why first ladies are expected to have recipes for everything – besides the fact that everything on a campaign happens by committee and the ultimate recipe is likely going to be something nobody in the...

Belle Waring notes some hope in the power of Negrosity on the horizon: Mickey Kaus is hoping and Mary Battiata is wondering (the distinction is different, as Kaus seems like a befuddled white guy who just really hates the silly shit some black...

UPDATE: Fox News Senior VP of Programming Bill Shine came up with this lame statement: “A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using this chyron during the segment.” Jesse linked to Atrios’s post on this, but I...

I’m going to give Larry Johnson a bone before he soils any more pants over the secret video jihad of Michelle Obama that he hasn’t seen but has it on good advice that other people have seen their cousins watch. Here, for the first...

John Cole writes about… (I go away for three years, come back, and John Cole is not only making sense, but he’s a really good read? Is Digby the despotic overlord of Oakland now?) …the “whitey” tape rumors that are...